CreekCrawler Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Ok I'll bite ID this for me please. Found in Brewster County Tx, I think it's a fossilized egg, but some of my friends suggested that I get a better educated guesser in on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 #2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 #3 any help will be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Sorry, its not an egg. That appears to be a siderite nodule. Fossil dinosaur eggs are extremely rare, and are only found in a few places on earth. The cretaceous of Montana is one example (e.g. Maiasaura, Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, etc.). Even in Montana, only a few localities have ever produced eggs, and most are from the Two Medicine Formation. In fact, the majority of dinosaur eggs from north america are from just these localities. Sorry! The best bet for dino eggs in Texas is probably the Javelina Formation, and doing extensive microsite bulk sampling, and even then, you'd probably get one piece of eggshell per every thousand other microsite elements. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non-remanié Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Ok I'll bite ID this for me please. Found in Brewster County Tx, I think it's a fossilized egg, but some of my friends suggested that I get a better educated guesser in on this. You likely have a concretion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concretion If there even are fossils found where you found this, you have to consider what kind of fossils. In Texas, they are likely marine, and the chances of an egg being fossilized at the bottom of an ocean doesn't seem likely. ---Wie Wasser schleift den Stein, wir steigen und fallen--- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Here's a Late Cretaceous egg from the Fox Hill formation in SD. It IS a bird egg, but I'm not ready to name it even tentatively (but the list of suspects is getting shorter). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Thanks y'all , it sure looks like an egg. Oh, well just a nice paper weight then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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